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Slaughters and Freshfields join US firms on $1.85bn Cable & Wireless deal

Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are advising on Cable & Wireless Communications' (CWC) proposed acquisition of Latin American telecoms provider Columbus International for $1.85bn (£1.15bn).
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Hogan Lovells and US pair act on Lenovo's $2.1bn IBM server acquisition

Hogan Lovells, Cravath Swaine & Moore and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have taken lead roles IBM's sale of its x86 server to Lenovo for $2.1bn (£1.3bn).
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Hogan Lovells and US pair act on Lenovo's $2.1bn IBM server acquisition

Hogan Lovells, Cravath Swaine & Moore and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have taken lead roles IBM's sale of its x86 server to Lenovo for $2.1bn (£1.3bn).
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Quartet of law firms advise on Siemens' $7.6bn US buy out

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Baker Botts and Latham & Watkins have secured roles on Siemens' $7.6bn (£4.65bn) purchase of US oil-field equipment giant, Dresser-Rand.
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Quartet of law firms advise on Siemens' $7.6bn US buy out

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Baker Botts and Latham & Watkins have secured roles on Siemens' $7.6bn (£4.65bn) purchase of US oil-field equipment giant, Dresser-Rand.
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Twitter GC is awarded $7.3m worth of shares one year post-IPO

Twitter has awarded its general counsel, Vijaya Gadde, $7.3m (£4.5m) worth of shares in the company, a year after she took the role.
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Twitter GC is awarded $7.3m worth of shares one year post-IPO

Twitter has awarded its general counsel, Vijaya Gadde, $7.3m (£4.5m) worth of shares in the company, a year after she took the role.
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New year, new law – the most popular Legal Week Law briefings from Q1 2014

New law, future law, tomorrow's law – whatever your opinion on the buzzwords and faddish phrases regularly bandied about by prognosticators and futurologists, most within the profession are in agreement that the downturn has ushered in a new era for legal services.
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IT teams under siege as personal tablet use booms at law firms

Law firm IT directors are battling to support an influx of personal tablets and other mobile devices in the workplace, with almost a third of lawyers now using tablets in the office. The number of lawyers using devices such as iPads and Android tablets has grown by almost half in the last year, with around 34% uptake at law firms, compared to 23% in 2012, according to Legal Week Intelligence's annual IT Report. The survey, which canvassed the views of more than 2,000 lawyers at leading firms, found that although tablet use has increased significantly, the vast majority of these devices (94%) are personally owned, with law firms still restricting company devices to the senior echelons.
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Latham and Skadden use the force on Disney's $4bn Lucasfilm purchase

Latham & Watkins and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have taken starring roles on The Walt Disney Company's $4.05bn (£2.5bn) acquisition of Lucasfilm, one of the most high-profile M&A deals of the year. Lucasfilm, which is 100% owned by chairman and founder George Lucas, is the production company behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film franchises. The stock and cash deal will see Disney pay approximately half in cash and issue around 40 million shares.
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